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Tijan
Fiction / Romance / Young Adult
Dani’s survived a lot of sh*t storms.Her mother died. Her two sisters loathed her. One aunt hated her. The other was strangely distant, but the worst storm—being dumped by her childhood best friend/high school boyfriend/first love for her younger sister.There went the one person who was hers and with that, the main reason she stuck around. So, she left for ten years. But now she’s back, and nothing’s the same.With help from Jonah Bannon, a reformed—kind of—bad boy she remembers from high school, Dani uncovers family secrets that have spanned generations. And along with those, she’s about to face the biggest sh*t storm of her life.Only this time, she may not survive.
Stone of Tears
Part #2 of "Sword of Truth" series by Terry Goodkind
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction
The Sword of Truth series follows Richard Cypher, a young woodsman intent on tracking down his father's murderer. His quest will take him far from home, embroiling him in an ancient war, three-millennia past, that is about to re-ignite with world-shattering violence.
'The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.' Richard Cypher and Kahlan Amnell ignore Wizard's Second Rule at their peril.
Richard Cypher's battle with Darken Rahl has torn the veil that separates the world of the living from the Underworld, freeing the Keeper's minions to stalk the land. To repair the veil, Richard will be forced to confront the true and deadly nature of his inheritance and Kahlan will be forced to betray the man she loves.
Alone with the terrible truth of what she has done, Kahlan must forge an army and battle a new threat that is even now scouring the land, determined to eradicate the corrupting taint of magic once and for all. But even that may be easier than...
Tears of the Moon
Part #2 of "Gallaghers of Ardmore" series by Nora Roberts
Fiction / Suspense / Fantasy
A talented songwriter, Shawn Gallagher spends his days lost in reverie and wonder, oblivious to the wiles of women and the ways of the world. He claims that he\'s content with his life, but his music tells a different story—one of loneliness and desperate longing…No one understands why Shawn doesn\'t put his musical gift to profitable use—least of all Brenna O\'Toole, a fiercely independent tomboy who has been secretly in love with him for years. But it is only when Shawn gives in to the mysteries of magic that he gets the chance to fulfill his destiny as a man and a musician—as the song in his head keeps time with the beating of a woman\'s heart…
Tears of the Giraffe
Alexander McCall Smith
Mystery & Thrillers / Literature & Fiction / Children's Books
For an earlier cover of this edition, click here
THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 2
Fans around the world adore the best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea.
Precious Ramotswe is the eminently sensible and cunning proprietor of the only ladies’ detective agency in Botswana. In Tears of the Giraffe she tracks a wayward wife, uncovers an unscrupulous maid, and searches for an American man who disappeared into the plains many years ago. In the midst of resolving uncertainties, pondering her impending marriage to a good, kind man, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, and the promotion of her talented secretary (a graduate of the Botswana Secretarial College, with a mark of 97 per cent), she also finds her family suddenly and unexpectedly increased by two.
Dragon Tears
Dean Koontz
Thriller / Mystery / Science Fiction & Fantasy
Harry Lyon was a rational man, a cop who refused to let his job harden his soul. Then one fateful day, he was forced to shoot a man--and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes uttered the haunting words that challenged Harry Lyon's sanity: "Ticktock, ticktock. You'll be dead in sixteen hours. . . Dead by dawn. . . Dead by dawn. . . Dead by dawn. . . "
Cold Copper Tears
Glen Cook
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Slaying beauty
She was tall, blonde, and offering Garrett a fee that was irresistible to take a case that seemed open and shut. But in a town of elves and humans, thugs and swindlers—a place where magic and religion could prove an all-too-potent mix—Garrett had learned to take a long, hard look before nodding yes.
And when, soon after this damsel in distress had departed, the Grand Inquisitor came looking for Garrett’s help, he knew it was time to throw some business his competitors’ way. But even for a hard-boiled detective like Garrett, who had the Dead Man for an ally and the toughest half-elf in town guarding his back, it was already too late to say no. For Garrett had been fingered as the latest sacrifice to a long-dead god, and his only chance to save his neck was to solve his newest cases right now!
Scent of Tears
M. Juan Knecht
Book 1 in the Conchos and Lace Series: Charlie Horn, the orphan son of a sea captain, is given a second chance at survival when a wealthy ranch owner in Monterey, California, becomes his benefactor. Don Topo treats him like a son, and Charlie, who dreams of becoming a vaquero, loves working on the Monterey estancia.Book 1 in the Conchos and Lace Series: Charlie Horn, the orphan son of a sea captain, is given a second chance at survival when a wealthy ranch owner in Monterey, California, becomes his benefactor. Don Topo treats him like a son, and Charlie, who dreams of becoming a vaquero, loves working on the Monterey estancia. Life would be uncomplicated, except that Charlie is irrevocably in love with Lucinda, Don Topo's beautiful blue-eyed daughter—and he has been ever since he first saw her.
The proud and vibrant Lucinda has a thirst for life and a dangerous lack of fear, but she has no interest in Charlie, except to taunt and torment him. To her he is nothing but a family servant.
Everything changes when Lucinda's lust for life and danger leads her into the arms of Tiburcio Vasquez, an outlaw wanted for the murder of a Monterey constable. Lucinda's dalliance with the outlaw results in a pregnancy, but Don Topo refuses to allow such a scandal to sully the family name. Instead, he insists that his daughter marry Charlie, thereby forcing him into a lifelong relationship with a woman who is part nightmare and part sweet dream. Set in the ever-changing world of the Alta Sierra in the late eighteen hundreds, Scent of Tears is a story about an unlikely marriage between a young man trying to find his place in the world and a young girl whose heart belongs to a charismatic bandit.
Tears of a Tiger
Sharon M. Draper
Realistic Fiction / Young Adult / Fiction
After a car accident kills Robert, Andy's best friend and teammate on the Hazelwood High Tigers, Andy doesn't know if he can go on. He's consumed with guilt for driving the night of the accident after a long evening of drinking and partying. With perceptiveness and compassion, Sharon M. Draper portrays an African-American teenager who feels driven to consider suicide in the wake of a devastating tragedy.
Silent Tears
Adeyinka Oresanya
Ireti Akinwunmi loves her boyfriend a lot, and she is sure he loves her, too. But when his affection leaves her with more tears than she bargained for, she wonders if what they have is truly love. Will her tears ever dry?It’s 1813. Napoleon’s army needs to retreat from Spain and return to France, but the main pass across the jagged peaks of the Pyrenees is within easy reach of the British forces.In his search for an alternative escape route, Alaine Bellanger discovers more than just an ancient mountain trail. High up, in a cleft between two peaks, he finds something very strange indeed — and someone even stranger. But who can he tell? And who would believe him?
Tears of a Dragon
Bryan Davis
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Young Adult
Victory in the Circles of Seven came at a great cost to Billy Bannister and Bonnie Silver. A vicious evil was unleashed on the earth that only the dragons can defeat. With Billy’s father, the great Clefspeare, missing, Billy and Bonnie must lead the dragons into war against the Watchers—demonic beings as old as the earth itself. Masters at the art of deception, the Watchers use the deadliest of weapons against mankind. A remnant of wise humans, the friends of the dragons, unite in the struggle against the Watchers. With heart-stopping action, the final battle between dragons and their enemies comes to a climax. But in order to win the war, at least one of the dragons must die.
As the story ends, Billy and Bonnie are faced with the greatest decision of their lives. Will they keep the dragon traits that have cost them so much danger and heartache, or will they turn to normal human life and end the slayers’ lust for their blood forever.
The Larsen Sisters 4: Tears in Heaven
Cassandra Javier
Chick Lit / Ebooks / Mystery
The most misunderstood of the Larsen Sisters, it's Kim's turn to tell her story. But is it already too late?A story of life, love and chances.The galactic computer network is ancient beyond all knowing. The elder races that built it in prehistoric times are extinct. The civilizations now using it for commerce and translation don't know all its secrets. But one lone human has outfitted a trading vessel with technologies from its archives, and he roams the stars, venturing far beyond anywhere humans have previously traveled. In a far distant corner of the Galaxy he stumbles on a dire threat to its community of diverse cultures. He must fight it—but he can't do so alone!
Bread of Tears
Fowlpox Press
“Bread of Tears” is at once engaging and unsettling. It’s not a “one read and done” collection. On my first pass through Nathaniel S. Rounds’ work, I found myself wondering just what had happened to Rounds to make him create such disjointed, almost crestfallen characters and imagery.--Patrick StevensMy first clue into Rounds’ motivations came with some research into the title. The phrase “bread of tears” is taken from Psalm 80. The verses around it say the following:How long, Lord God Almighty, will your anger smolder against the prayers of your people? You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears by the bowlful. You have made us an object of derision to our neighbors, and our enemies mock us. It was then that I began to understand the subjects of Rounds’ poetry. They are not the subjects of love, objects of affection, or esteemed champions of victory that are the subjects of so many poems before. They are not even the hard-working, salt of the earth people whose praises are sung throughout the verses of Whitman and others like him. In a way, they are not subjects of anything. They are people so defeated by life that they are never mentioned at all.--Patrick Stevens
A Thousand Tears
J.C. Martin
Mystery & Thrillers / Horror / Short Stories
A tragic fantasy tale that will hopefully drive home the point: that communication is of foremost importance in all relationships.Sixfold is an all-writer-voted journal. All writers who upload their manuscripts vote to select the highest-voted $1000 prize-winning manuscripts and all the short stories and poetry published in each issue.In Sixfold Fiction Summer 2015: Paul Heinz | I, Monster Absolom J. Hagg | Someplace South, Anywhere Warm Valerie Cumming | Among These Very Trees Jenny Belardi | The Girl in the Leather-Bound Notebook Chris Belden | Private "I" Lindsay Mohlere | Last Cast at Indian Falls Lora Hilty | Some Terrible Beauty Katherine Enggass | Ghost Floor Lee Houck | Real as Life Benjamin Schachtman | Gomorrah Kelsey Tressler | The Chrysalis Center Luke de Castro | Funeral for Max and Greta L. L. Babb | The Religion of the Rich Julie Zuckerman | The Book of Jeremiah
TEARS NOW AND THEN
Rm Shanmugam Chettiar
This book consists of 192 poems about life, contradictions, conflicts with relation to societies in a style suited to common people of all adults across the globe.A collection of poems, small and long, about life penned during 2013 This book consists of 192 poems about life, contradictions, conflicts with relation to societies in a style suited to common people of all adults across the globe. Some of them much thought provoking and some for introspection. Almost all poems are in blank verse type and metric.
The Debt of Tears
Cao Xueqin
Classics / Fiction / Cultural
"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known by the title of "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into five volumes, of which "The Debt of Tears" is the fourth, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords with the fortunes of the author's own family). The two main characters, Bao-yu and Dai-yu, are set against a rich tapestry of humour, realistic detail and delicate poetry, which accurately reflects the ritualized hurly-burly of Chinese family life. But over and above the novel hangs the constant reminder that there is another plane of existence a theme, which affirms the Buddhist belief in a supernatural scheme of things.
Ruby Tears
Abby Farnsworth
"The phantom memory of his touch brushed against my waist as I stroked the silver chain. I loved him more than I wanted to admit to myself."After the tumultuous events of Scarlet Whispers, Anne finds herself in a position where her heart is breaking. Her love life is falling apart, and she's in total confusion. While Anne is struggling to accept the new direction her life is taking, James is making decisions that his former self would have hated. Albert becomes Anne's best friend through her struggles and attempts to help her with the challenges she's facing. The epic vampire love triangle between Albert, James, and Anne continues in the second installment of The Shades of Us Trilogy. When her adventure brings her back to Savannah, Anne will have to make a choice that shapes her future.
Tears for Tarshiha
Olfat Mahmoud
A Palestinian refugee's inspiring tale of her lifelong fight to return home. Olfat Mahmoud is a Palestinian refugee – a descendant of the Christian and Muslim people who fled Palestine in the period leading up to and after the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. She is an accomplished woman in her own right: the director of an international NGO, an internationally recognised peace activist, a registered nurse and, most recently, the recipient of a doctorate.
The Silent Tears of Polygamy
Robin Johnson
Every now and again a great book comes along that changes our perception of marriage. "The Silent Tears of Polygamy": Based on a True Story of an American Female is a contemporary fiction novel about a modern, cultured woman named Ana who lived on the Upper West Side of New York City and had a career that she found both enjoyable and challenging. She had converted to Islam and led a chaste life, devoted to studying the precepts of her religion and following the advice of her mentor.Like all young girls who grew up playing house and fantasizing about the perfect husband that she'll have when she gets older, Ana wanted to marry some day and experience a life with a loving companion. She was willing to wait for the right man and would not settle for those men who had already tried to form relationships with her.Ana thought her fantasy came true when she met Alec Coleman. Alec had been recommended to her by a friend, and he seemed to be everything that she was looking for. Like her,...
Hit Parade of Tears
Izumi Suzuki
A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts and enhances some of the classic concepts of science fiction and fantasy. A philandering husband receives a bestial punishment from a wife with her own secrets to keep; a music lover finds herself in a timeline both familiar and as wrong as can be; a misfit band of space pirates discover a mysterious baby among the stars; Emma, the Bovary-like character from one of Suzuki's stories in Terminal Boredom, lands herself in a bizarre romantic pickle. Wryly anarchic and deeply imaginative, Suzuki was a writer like no other. These eleven stories offer readers the opportunity to delve deeper in this singular writer's work.
Tushpa's Story (Touch My Tears
Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer
Mississippi, 1834 "Protect the book as you do our seed corn. We must have both to survive." The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek changed everything. The Choctaw Nation could no longer remain in their ancient homelands.Young Tushpa, his family, and their small band embark on a trail of life and death. More death than life lay ahead. On their journey to a new homeland, the faith of his father and one book guide Tushpa as he learns what it means to become a man and a leader.But before long, betrayal from within and without rip at the unity of the band. Can Tushpa help keep his tattered people together? Or will they all be lost to sickness of the mind, body, and spirit on the four hundred mile walk? A continuation of the anthology Touch My Tears: Tales from the Trail of Tears, this story follows an original manuscript written by Tushpa's son, James Culberson. "As the great-granddaughter of Tushpa, a...
String of Tears
Dale Mayer
Business & Investing / Home & Garden / Paranormal Fiction
This is book 22 of the Psychic Vision series. Jewel wakes up in the hospital, with no memory of what happened to her or no reason why she was found on the highway—dead. As reawakening goes, this one is brutal, but even more confusing is her instinctive grasping for a missing necklace around her neck. Had she been robbed, beaten, and dumped? If so, why? She has few friends and even fewer family members left to care, but, unlike his name, Hurricane walks into her hospital room and becomes a safe harbor for a world gone nuts. Hurricane had been asked by Stefan to help Jewel and to take possession of a necklace, if it was deemed dangerous. Hurricane has seen a lot of dangerous and crazy things in his life, but Jewel's current state is something new to him. As the dangerous storm heightens around them, Hurricane's task—keeping Jewel safe, as she tries to regain her memories and her sanity—slips even further away ... Jewel wakes up in the...
Between Tears
Pamela Ridley
Two murders intertwine. Andrea is bereaved by one, accused of the other. In the meantime, she's engaged to the man with motive for both.Benjamin's a likely suspect in her sister's murder, but Andrea's heart says no. She searches for her sister's killer and at the same time, she falls in love with Benjamin. On top of this, her ex-boyfriend decides he made a mistake in letting her go and has the sex tape to prove it. He comes up murdered.Will Andrea's faith be strong enough to allow her to face the truth and find happiness between tears?
Cleopatra's Tears
Harry Stephen Keeler
Mystery & Thrillers / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Short Stories
Several men find themselves stranded by a flooding river on Bleeker's Island. The jewels known as Cleopatra's Tears are missing, and one of the men is believed to be Actor Hart, notorious killer and thief — maybe even the one who stole the jewels. Can the sheriff figure out which one is Hart — and make sure he's the one without a life jacket when the dam upriver gives way?
Aphrodite's Tears
Andrew Vaillencourt
Science Fiction
Roland Tankowicz hates Venus.The last time he went there, he died. So, no one could really blame him if he never went back.Nevertheless, when a squad of Venusian assassins ruins date night, everybody’s least-favorite Army-surplus cyborg decides to take a trip to Earth’s sister planet and have a sit-down with an infamous group of terrorists.Perhaps it’s because he really likes date night. Maybe he just wants to keep the promise he once made to a troubled young man. It is even conceivable that he might still have a heap of unresolved issues with the separatists who blew his body apart years ago. For whatever reason, the big man and his motley crew of misfits strap on their guns and hurl themselves into the murky world of interplanetary terrorism.To his dismay, Roland discovers that Venus has changed since his last visit. The black-and-white politics of the fanatics and governments he remembers have now merged into...
The Tears of Monterini
Amanda Weinberg
Monterini, Italy. 1921. Yacobo Levi, an intellectual dreamer, works in the family bookshop. Angelo Ghione, a contadino, makes good wine by singing to the grapes. Lifetime best friends, their Jewish and Catholic families live side by side amidst a backdrop of village communal life, Etruscan tales and the growth of Benito Mussolini. Born on the same day, their children grow up and fall in love. When the 1938 racial laws are passed, the love between Bella and Rico thrives amidst and perhaps because of the fear and uncertainty. When Angelo discovers their liaison he suggests they marry but life is complicated and tensions simmer beneath the surface of love and friendship. When war is declared on the day of Bella's wedding to Michele a fellow Jew, the peaceful village they live in is torn apart, and the Levis find themselves displaced and fighting for their lives. Will life ever be the same again?The Tears of Monterini is a story of love and betrayal, loyalty and friendship. Inspired...
Dance of Twilight and Tears
Zara Mills
Algae and toe shoes, feathers and tutus Behind the gilded doors of the Paris Opéra Ballet, two best friends, Madeleine and Lucie, dance the night away. But at first morning light, their human bodies transform into webbed feet, billed lips, and wings.When enchanted, the girls are the Bois de Boulogne's famous black and white swans. For ninety years, they have floated in the lake, unable to find true love and break the evil Dance Master's curse. But when Madeleine meets American transplant Zig Young, everything changes.Suddenly, Madeleine wins a coveted solo spot in an upcoming ballet, and her growing relationship with Zig means she's on the verge of breaking the enchantment. However, doing so means leaving the Bois, the Ballet, and Lucie forever—something she's not sure she can bear.Desperate to not lose her best friend, Lucie will do anything to keep Madeleine with her—including betrayal. She'll stop at...
Tears for Atlantis
J. M. Rojas
Seasons change, and so does the world. A restless, ancient people have come from our distant past to live among modern man. And with them they bring their age old quarrels."Tears for Atlantis" is a short story about Jack Grey's parents, Thomas and Eleanor. It is a prequel to the events that take place in "Dark Tide Rising".Seasons change, and so does the world. A restless, ancient people have come from our distant past to live among modern man. And with them they bring their age old quarrels.The Crown of Dreams lays buried beneath the seas of the world, lost forever. However, there is one man left who remembers where it fell. And his mere memory of its location has made Thomas a target for power-hungry men..."Tears for Atlantis" is a short story about Jack Grey's parents, Thomas and Eleanor. It is a prequel to the events that take place in "Dark Tide Rising".
My Father's Tears and Other Stories
John Updike
Fiction
John Updike’s first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father’s Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.
“Personal Archaeology” considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and “The Full Glass” distills a lifetime’s happiness into one brimming moment of an old man’s bedtime routine. High-school class reunions, in “The Walk with Elizanne” and “The Road Home,” restore their hero to youth’s commonwealth where, as the narrator of the title story confides, “the self I value is stored, however infrequently I check on its condition.” Exotic locales encountered in the journeys of adulthood include Morocco, Florida, Spain, Italy, and India. The territory of childhood, with its fundamental, formative mysteries, is explored in “The Guardians,” “The Laughter of the Gods,” and “Kinderszenen.” Love’s fumblings among the bourgeoisie yield the tart comedy of “Free,” “Delicate Wives,” “The Apparition,” and “Outage.”
In sum, American experience from the Depression to the aftermath of 9/11 finds reflection in these glittering pieces of observation, remembrance, and imagination.
DANMAR: Warrior of Tears
Kay Murky
Science Fiction & Fantasy
A Novella from the world of Kitra, featuring the Onlashian dragons: Imperial Captain Marteen leads a suicide mission into enemy territory, certain of failure before he had even met the Allied Forces.Yellow Dani, junior commander in the Allied Forces, rescues the only surviving Imperial soldier from the carnage. Will Marteen end up as the dragon's prisoner, or his supper?Captain Marteen has spent most of his life following orders. Forced into the Imperial Army as a young man, with the only way out being retirement or death, he has given up all hope of ever being able to develop his gifts as a healer. Now he finds himself part of a group of soldiers and mages on loan to the King of Essa, taking part in an attempted invasion of the northern countries of Ranmor. His habit of always questioning orders lands him in the lead of a mixed group of Imperial and Essian soldiers ordered into enemy territory to ambush the approaching Allied forces. This he immediately recognises as a suicide mission.The yellow dragon, Daninackan, is second in command of the Onlashian military healers travelling with the Allied forces to confront the invaders. Others write off his unease at the approaching confrontation as pre-battle nerves, but Dani cannot rid himself of the feeling that something is very wrong - which is how he ends up pulling the only surviving Imperial soldier off a burning hill.But what must he do with the man now?Marteen is not sure if he is the dragon's prisoner, or supper, and can only wait to find out his fate.
Tears of Life
Shea Balik
As Mingus, Oluf, and their friends get closer to Samhain, the Fae will try to stop them using everything at their disposal. It means finding a way to work together, even if it takes shedding a few Tears of Life to do so
The Chemistry of Tears
Peter Carey
Fiction
An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, two stories of love—all are brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.
London 2010: Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the sudden death of her colleague and lover of thirteen years. As the mistress of a married man, she must struggle to keep the depth of her anguish to herself. The one other person who knows Catherine’s secret—her boss—arranges for her to be given a special project away from prying eyes in the museum’s Annexe. Usually controlled and rational, but now mad with grief, Catherine reluctantly unpacks an extraordinary, eerie automaton that she has been charged with bringing back to life.
As she begins to piece together the clockwork puzzle, she also uncovers a series of notebooks written by the mechanical creature’s original owner: a nineteenth-century Englishman, Henry Brandling, who traveled to Germany to commission it as a magical amusement for his consumptive son. But it is Catherine, nearly two hundred years later, who will find comfort and wonder in Henry’s story. And it is the automaton, in its beautiful, uncanny imitation of life, that will link two strangers confronted with the mysteries of creation, the miracle and catastrophe of human invention, and the body’s astonishing chemistry of love and feeling.
Tears of My Mother
Wendy Osefo
When star of Bravo's The Real Housewives of Potomac Dr. Wendy Osefo was growing up, her mother was her everything. But when she became a mother herself, everything changed. In this powerful memoir, Wendy explores how her Nigerian upbringing has affected her life, her success, and her role as a parent.Wendy Osefo's mother, Iyom Susan Okuzu, arrived in the United States from Nigeria with two things: a single suitcase and the fierce determination to make a better life for herself and her future family. And she succeeded: starting out working in a fast-food restaurant and ultimately becoming the director of nursing at a major metropolitan hospital. While Susan may have taken pride in triumphing over every financial and emotional challenge, in Nigerian culture, a parent is only as successful as his or her children. And so her daughter, with gratitude and appreciation for her mother's sacrifices, worked hard to meet every demand Susan made...
Love Turned to Tears
Curtis Windham
This is one man's way of mentoring the world. As he journeys to find himself he learns that although life may force you to take a few detours, your destination remains the same. His story is a familiar story of lust, greed, lies and drugs but the way he tells it is inspirational and refreshing. Told through the lens of poetry, you will not put it down until finished.One man's journey to find himself. Through the obstacles of falling in love, hurting and abusing women, and encounters with drugs and alcohol. He learns that in order to become a man you must first nurture and allow the boy inside to grow and mature. As he journeys to become a man and find his purpose, he encounters countless detours but his destination remains the same. A part of his life is captured in each piece of poetry. This a brutally honest picture of his downfalls and victories. He does not exclude the hearts he has broken and the times he has had his broken. This is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.
Nine Days, and Seven Tears
JL Merrow
Gay & Lesbian / Romance / Humor
Twenty-one-year-old Briony is stagnating, living at home with her parents and younger brother. That is, until a mysterious, beautiful visitor from the sea brings her new hope of happiness.But Freyja's not meant to be on the Isle of Wight, and she's about to leave for home shores. Can Briony find a way to keep her selkie lover by her side?
Tears of the Silenced
Misty Griffin
Misty Griffin's story ─ Surviving child abuse, parental betrayal, sexual assault, and Amish crueltyA true crime memoir: When Misty was six years old her family started to live and dress like the Amish. Misty and her sister were kept as slaves on a mountain ranch where they were subjected to almost complete isolation, sexual abuse and extreme physical violence. Their step-father kept a loaded rifle by the door at all times to make sure the young girls were too terrified to try to escape. They also knew that no rescue would ever come because only a couple of people even knew they existed and did not know them well enough to care.Amish Sexual abuse: When Misty reached her teens, her parents feared she and her sister would escape and took them to an Amish community where they were adopted and became baptized members. Misty was devastated to once again find herself in a world of fear, animal cruelty and sexual abuse. Going to...
Tears
TK Wade
Timothy was just an average boy who was yearning for the attention of his mother and father. Unfortunately, the only one who seemed to take notice of him was a very cruel babysitter. “Tears” by T.K. Wade is an intense drama about abandonment and the importance of love in the life of a young child.“Tears” by T.K. Wade follows the story of Timothy, a young boy yearning for the attention of his perpetually busy mother and father. Only his babysitter, Brenda, ever finds the time to listen. Only she seems interested in the things he is doing or how he is feeling. She is the only one. She is hurting him. Timothy is the victim of psychotic abuse, yet he loves and protects his abuser. He is loyal to Brenda… even when she becomes threatening; even when she becomes dangerous. Busy parents suddenly find the time to think about their child… when it may be too late! Brace yourself for this intense, psychological thriller!
Deep Winter
Part #1 of "Tears of Winter" series by Kingsley Khan
Change is the only constant, and not all change is good. Waking on his couch after a bright flash of light, with two suns hanging in the sky, Tristan Walker is in for a whole lot of change.
This is not a happy harem story.
-Warning- This book contains graphic depictions of adult scenes; the good, the bad, and the ugly. Profanity is used, and some content may be traumatizing or triggering. (18+)
The Tears of Buddha
E A Allen
Marie-Claire Bernard was the widow of a national hero and the daughter of a wealthy, politically powerful family and her murder threatened domestic consequences for the French Government. Eager to avoid uproar in the press, the Minister of Justice summons Gérard de Montclaire –the most renowned detective of the era—to assume a familiar role. Examining Magistrate, with sweeping powers to find and prosecute the killer.Montclaire soon learns that Marie-Claire was in possession of three rare and priceless porcelain bowls of the Tang Dynasty. The legendary bowls—called The Tears of Buddha — are now missing. A motive for murder? Soon, however, what seems to be a clear case of criminal murder and theft is overturned by developments that take Montclaire into the bizarre world of criminal syndicates, espionage, code-breaking and the German Kaiser's boundless ambitions and hatred of France. Following every thread of through a complicated skene of evidence and even surviving a...
Paola Santiago and the River of Tears
Tehlor Kay Mejia
Space-obsessed 12-year-old Paola Santiago and her two best friends, Emma and Dante, know the rule: Stay away from the river. It's all they've heard since a schoolmate of theirs drowned a year ago. Pao is embarrassed to admit that she has been told to stay away for even longer than that, because her mother is constantly warning her about La Llorona, the wailing ghost woman who wanders the banks of the Gila at night, looking for young people to drag into its murky depths.Hating her mother's humiliating superstitions and knowing that she and her friends would never venture into the water, Pao organizes a meet-up to test out her new telescope near the Gila, since it's the best stargazing spot. But when Emma never arrives and Pao sees a shadowy figure in the reeds, it seems like maybe her mom was right. . . .Pao has always relied on hard science to make sense of the world, but to find her friend she will have to enter the world of her nightmares, which includes unnatural mist,...
Razorblade Tears
S. A. Cosby
"Superb...Cuts right to the heart of the most important questions of our times." —Michael Connelly,#1 New York Times bestselling authorA Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance.Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek's father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their...
Tears Of Angels
Anuraag
Asian Literature / Indian Literature / Fiction
Sometimes people unknowingly fall into traps and get drowned in despair due to their inner conflict with their conscience. In the pursuit of happiness we often forget what is right and wrong? What then is true happiness- is it chasing after money or is it being close to your loved ones.A son rotting away right in front of his helpless mother. Why can't she stop him from taking drugs? A cop with a dark past on a mission to set things right. Can he stop them? A doctor leading a remorseful life and an irreversible mistake that will haunt him for the rest of his life. A soulless beast molded by unfortunate circumstances alive for just one purpose-destroy the society.A poison is a poison even when taken in smaller dosages and similarly a crime is a crime, there's no such thing as a smaller crime.Every crime has a story behind it. Read this short story filled with emotions and situations that will make you ponder if you are on the right path.
Tears and Other Fears
Part #2 of "Lies" series by Coralee June
I’m not myself.
I’m messier. Dangerous.
I’m numb and chaotic with a dash of self-destructive.
I know the truth about my brother’s death, but it doesn’t bring me comfort. Who wants to believe the girl with a dud gun in her purse and prescription pills in her palm?
Young and I are crashing into comfort, and somewhere along the way, I’ve caught feelings for my twin brother’s cheating ex. Then there’s Noah, the betraying bastard. I’m not sure we’ll ever be the same, and yet somehow I still crave him. At least Renon provides the sort of distraction I can understand. He helps me forget.
But I always remember in the end.
Samuel Smith will die. I’m sure of it. I just have to make sure he doesn’t kill me first.
Tears of the Ancient and Other Stories
Jason R. Koivu
Classics / History / Fantasy
Travel to new lands and visit old souls in Tears of the Ancient and Other Stories, a collection of short stories filled with demons and dragons*, betrayal and tomfoolery, a whipsmart goblin and a comedic mushroom!* It's more like an oversized lizard, if we're being honest.Two young boys spend their summer days playing in the woods, pretending they are miners working in the nearby mine that has been closed for decades. They pretend to be mining diamonds, gold and sometimes even rubies. Recently one of them has lost a loved one. So this time when the boys go into the woods to play the miner game, the grieving boy no longer wants to mine for gold, he wants to mine for ghosts, and this time he wants to go in the mine instead of simply near the entrance to play.
Silver Tears
Camilla Lackberg
THE NEW THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDEN CAGEIn this bold, mesmerizing story of seduction, deceit, and female power, a woman’s secret cannot stay buried forever. Faye Adelheim is living a delicious lie. She is wealthy beyond imagination, she is the Chairman of her self-made global cosmetics brand, and her ex-husband, the monster who killed her beloved daughter Julienne, is living out the remainder of his days behind bars. But unbeknownst to journalists, police officers, and investors, and even the lovers she occasionally invites to her bed, Faye has a secret: her daughter is, in fact, alive and well and so is her mother, the woman Faye’s father was sentenced for allegedly killing years ago. Together, three generations of women have survived in hiding from the men who sought to destroy them. But unfortunately for Faye, cages are meant to be opened, pillow talk can lead to...
Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets
Patricio Pron
From the acclaimed Argentine writer, one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists: a bold, ambitious new novel about how art became politics and politics became crime during the cataclysm of the Second World War.Pinerolo, Italy; April 1945. At a conference in support of fascism, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man—a political activist or a terrorist, depending on your perspective—interviews the survivors from the conference, to try to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. Who was the writer? What did he believe in? Why, shortly before his death, did he save a man who could have killed him? Where is his lost work? And what does any of this have to do with a teenager in contemporary Milan involved in a violent confrontation with the police? Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets is a razor-sharp, completely original exploration of our...
Shed No Tears
Caz Frear
Acclaimed and internationally bestselling crime novelist Caz Frear returns with her third superb novel featuring Cat Kinsella, a cop "on par with Susie Steiner's and Tana French's female detectives" (Kirkus Reviews).Four victims. Killer caught. Case closed . . . or is it? Growing up in a London family with ties to organized crime, Detective Constable Cat Kinsella knows the criminal world better than most cops do. As a member of the city's Metropolitan Police, she's made efforts to distinguish herself from her relatives. But leading an upstanding life isn't always easy, and Cat has come close to crossing the line, a fact she keeps well hidden from her superiors.Working their latest case, Cat and her partner Luigi Parnell discover a connection to a notorious criminal: serial killer Christopher Masters, who abducted and killed several women in 2012. Though the cops eventually apprehended him, his final victim, Holly Kemp, was never found and he...
PUBLIC SMILES, PRIVATE TEARS
Elward, James
She was a radiant bride. In the spring of 1946, Beverly Thyson stood beside her handsome young husband confident that she would have it all…home, family—and the career most women were denied. But the turbulent years ahead would bring hard truths and agonizing choices. Her own complex needs would sweep her into the arms of the man who could offer her everything—but love. Her own talent and ambition would propel her to the very pinnacle of success in the ruthless world of high fashion. Through tragedy and triumph, through failure and success, she would learn what it really means for a woman to get what she wants…to have everything—everything but the one thing her heart most desires.
No More Tears
Sandy Appleyard
A riches to rags cowboy. A hardened cowgirl. The gunshot that erases all doubt. Laura Warner knows nothing but horses. Her entire life has been lived on a ranch. It's her love, her dream, and aside from the love of her life, Quentin, it's the only thing that she ever thinks about. But when tragedy strikes at Kelsey Ranch, Laura is left to care for the horses and the land with the help of her siblings. Years later, Laura feels content with life, but when a gunshot blasts only days after she has to make a difficult decision, Laura learns that everything happens for a reason...and it doesn't always lead to more hardship...sometimes it leads to happiness. But can she convince herself that this is possible? Grayson Thomas is an out of work lowlife, who just happens to have world class siblings that drag him out of his rut days after he loses everything, or gives everything up, depending on one's perspective. When he makes the decision to flee from...
Sacred Tears
Tiffany Grant
Iris Straton stands as the last survivor as her home of 24 years smolders around her. A mysterious enemy descended like a plague the night before and slaughtered all in sight. Desperate to stop the carnage, Iris races down the road to warn other villages of the danger. Narrowly avoiding the clutches of a bandit, Iris collides into Darren, a secretive woodsman who joins her on her quest. Together they race to the kingdom capital, Alaster, in hopes of speaking with the king. Darren is a wanted criminal who has spent the last five years in hiding, but when a panicked woman accosts him in his own campsite he has no choice but to get involved. Iris's pleas for help stir memories of a dark secret for the kingdom of Fitsengea. Coming out of hiding, it isn't long before Darren is forced to face his past in the form of his old thieving partners Kyle and Bryant. Now Darren must battle between keeping his ghosts a bay, protecting Iris from his ex-partners, and regaining...
The City of Tears
Kate Mosse
Fiction / Historical Fiction
Following #1 Sunday Times bestseller The Burning Chambers, New York Times bestseller Kate Mosse returns with The City of Tears, a sweeping historical epic about love in a time of war.Alliances and RomanceAugust 1572: Minou Joubert and her husband Piet travel to Paris to attend a royal wedding which, after a decade of religious wars, is intended to finally bring peace between the Catholics and the Huguenots. Loyalty and DeceptionAlso in Paris is their oldest enemy, Vidal, in pursuit of an ancient relic that will change the course of history. Revenge and PersecutionWithin days of the marriage, thousands will lie dead in the street, and Minou's family will be scattered to the four winds . . .
Charcoal Tears
Jane Washington
Fantasy / Romance / Suspense
“You see, there is safety in simplicity… in a life of simple peace, where the electricity doesn’t dance across the backs of my eyelids, and the sparks don’t slither over my consciousness. Only asinine peace, where my paintings don’t seem to paint themselves, leaving me with terrible feelings of premonition and a chill beneath my fingernails.”
Seraph Black used to think that she was prepared for anything. She could last days without eating and she always walked away from the violent altercations with her father relatively unharmed. She survived working at the club and the drive to school every day in her mother’s rust-bucket of a car… but it all changed when Noah and Cabe came bulldozing into her life, careless of the precious secrets they picked apart in their quest to take over her world. She was even less prepared for the mysterious Miro and Silas, and nothing could have prepared her for the bond. The connection. The reason for it all.
Someone wanted her to stay away from her new friends, but she wasn’t willing to do that.
Everyone had secrets.
She wanted to know theirs. They wanted to own hers.
And the stalker?
He seemed to know everything already.
The Salt of Ancient Tears
Brian M. Talgo
In Julia, a successful lawyer, and Magnus, a talented artist, we meet two troubled souls living in present-day Oslo, haunted by dark thoughts and feelings they cannot understand—echoes of unresolved traumatic events from what seem to be former lives. Julia takes on a risky high society lawsuit involving a powerful hotel magnate, while Magnus receives a commission to paint his portrait to commemorate the opening of his new flagship hotel. Julia and Magnus repeatedly cross each other's paths, and despite their different lifestyles, an awkward and seemingly uncomfortable relationship unfolds. Chance encounters with an ancient Norse symbol, the Jörmungandr, lead them to Leonard, an alternative doctor with a fascination for Norse history. Using an esoteric method to evoke buried memories, Leonard helps them confront a distant and brutal past, convinced this is the key to achieving catharsis in the present.The Salt of Ancient Tears is a...
Zebra Tears
T. S. Vallée
While traveling to the beach with her daughter and grandchildren, Tess reminisces about her childhood playing on the grounds of an old Indian palace by the sea. Tess knows as she shares these memories that she cannot avoid telling of the pain and hurt she endured.Follow Tess as young girl growing up in India and her experiences at the St. Mary's Convent boarding school. The loneliness, rejection, and abuse she receives do not stop Tess from seeking the happiness, love and forgiveness she desires.
Dark Tears
Jordan Nelsch
In a dark and depressing town, you could expect dark and depressing people. But one... A girl named Anna, granddaughter of Eva Raventail the oldest women in the village. Eva was there fifty years ago when the founder and family of Blackwood bloodline ended.Eva tells her granddaughter as an old wise tale, why the manor uptop of the hill is haunted. Nobody had ever been to the manor in years. Ever since it's Lord to be was stabbed by his bride. And left to rot in the west wing. But the legend was that he still lives and waits for the 'one' to pull he cursed blade from his wounded and broken heart.And heal the land once more.
Tears of Terror
Alana Terry
Christian / Suspense
Chelsea's job is to report on tragedy and disaster ... not to experience them firsthand. As a hardworking reporter for Channel 2 News, Chelsea regularly covers stories about crime and terrorism. That doesn't mean she's prepared to find herself a hostage trapped thirty-thousand feet in the air. While her fellow passengers fight for their survival, Chelsea confronts the demons of her past and realizes she isn't ready to die. But the way the hijacking's going, Chelsea fears she's about to meet her Maker whether she's prepared for it or not. Tears of Terror is the fifth novella in the Turbulent Skies Christian thriller series, an unforgettable collection of interconnected stories about strangers traveling together aboard a doomed flight. Find out why Christian fiction readers can't stop raving about this heart-stopping, fast-paced series you can devour in a single sitting. If you like harrowing stories of...
Tears of Eternity
Part #2 of "Chronicles of Eternity" series by Blake Arthur Peel
The return of the dragons proceeds the end of all things...The Tears of Eternity are ancient and magical jewels. They imprison a powerful evil and prevent it from returning to the world. When nefarious forces begin gathering the Tears, however, those sworn to protect Thel'Varden are forced into action.Three unlikely heroes must band together to prevent total disaster: a renowned assassin from the south, a young sorceress from the east, and a grizzled warrior from the north. They must put aside their differences and learn to fight as one. Only then can they stop the return of the legendary dragon, Draxxes the Defiant...Based on the greatest roleplaying game of all time, Dungeons and Dragons.
Tears of a Clown
Robin Ray
Horror / Romance / Mystery & Thrillers
How well do you know your neighbors? A small town's best & brightest high school students are being eliminated one by one by a goth-inspired wise-cracking clown, forcing their valedictorian to unwittingly link up with a special investigator to help stop the carnage.It all begins one sunny day in Century City High’s School’s girls’ locker room with the gruesome murder of a cheerleader. Soon, the school valedictorian, Laurel, a promising chemist, is being stalked in one of the chemistry labs. She catches a glimpse of the intruder, but gets away by breaking a glass window. Within the next few days, other promising students such as the always comical Bell and the football star Chip are killed by The Clown. As the killer’s net tightens around Laurel, those close to her are also targeted by the ruthless maniac. It is only a matter of time before she, too, comes face to face with the dark evil bent on revealing the Tears of a Clown. Who will survive?
Love Hope and Tears
David Papa-Adams
My Poetry is the unheard voice within your head which will make you feel, understand, grasp at life; they are thought provoking colourful, dark, profound, esoteric, whimsical and playful; they can freely pass into your imagination or trespass on your emotions. They are an analgesic, but also can give pain, sorrow, happiness, laughter, and anger. And yes, they are waiting to inspire you.My Poetry is the unheard voice within your head which will make you feel, understand, grasp at life; they are thought provoking colourful, dark, profound, esoteric, whimsical and playful; they can freely pass into your imagination or trespass on your emotions. They are more than speech therapy; they are cognitive, loving, caring, tormenting, alive, bursting, bustling, bullying, manipulative, cagy, wearisome, explosive, volcanic, disrupting, prevaricating, concise, and precise. They are an analgesic, but also can give pain, sorrow, happiness, laughter, and anger. And yes, they are waiting to inspire you, should you dare enter their kingdom.
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Jacob Wren
What are the best ways to support political struggles that aren't your own? What are the fundamental principles of a utopia during war? Can we transcend the societal values we inherit? Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim is a remarkably original, literary page-turner that explores such pressing questions of our time.A depressed writer visits a war zone. He knows it's a bad idea, but his curiosity and obsession that his tax dollars help to pay for foreign wars draw him there. Amid the fighting, he stumbles into a small strip of land that's being reimagined as a grassroots, feminist, egalitarian utopia. As he learns about the principles of the collective, he moves between a fragile sense of self and the ethical considerations of writing about what he experiences but cannot truly fathom. Meanwhile, women in his life—from this reimagined society and elsewhere—underscore truths hidden in plain sight. In these pages, real-world politics mingle with...
Tears of Frost
Bree Barton
This captivating second book in Bree Barton's Heart of Thorns trilogy deftly explores the effects of power in a dark magical kingdom—and the fierce courage it takes to claim your body as your own. This feminist teen fantasy is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Leigh Bardugo.Mia Rose is back from the dead. Her memories are hazy, her body numb—but she won't stop searching. Her only hope to save the boy she loves and the sister who destroyed her is to find the mother she can never forgive. After her mother's betrayal, Pilar is on a hunt of her own—to seek out the only person who can exact revenge. All goes according to plan until she collides with Prince Quin, the boy whose sister she killed.As Mia, Pilar, and Quin forge dangerous new alliances, they are bewitched by the snow kingdom's promise of freedom...but nothing is as it seems under the kingdom's glimmering ice.
